Chapter 18: The Recognition

[ Name: Ren Arken

Age: 14

Race: Human

Strength: 30n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

Agility: 2000

Vitality: 200

Mana: ~~~

Spiritual: ~~~

Intellect: 1, 000

Unique Skills:

-magic cards -appraisal -evil gaze -strengthen -leap -basic magics -fire magic -Fire Archmagic -illusion magic -water magic -light magic -nature magic -Grimoire of death -Real Clone [Heavenly Slime] -Eye of Wisdom ]

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Spirit

The concepts of spirit and soul often overlap, and both are believed to survive bodily death in some religions, and “spirit” can also have a sense of ghost, i.e. a manifestation of the spirit of a deceased person.

But the truth is, the spirit is a race similar to humans, orcs, and elves, with the only difference, are their form couldn’t be seen by naked eyes.

There are spirits of fire, wind, earth, water, ice, thunder, light, and darkness. And each element has its kings and queens. In the great battle with the despicable demons, some spirits join hands with the heroes to eradicate the demon’s threats.

-World history of Grandaria, Grandaria library, Capital of Grandaria

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“This…”

Aegir sized up the burly human with a youthful face figure in front of him that supposed to be his intelligent, strong, and trusted goblin duke friend.

“Do you still going to entrust the position of the king to me?” Oz said with an indifferent look as if he didn’t care that he’s been deceiving Aegir and Co for so long.

“Actually Ren…”

—Hours before—

“Hey, Aegir! Where’s Ren?” Fedra asked Aegir looking for the hero of the war.

“Yeah, he suddenly vanished from the banquet too, we haven’t toast with him yet!” Ibra continued.

“Calm down, he’s busy with his study, he’s reading the book grimoire of death that he’s been saving up to read today, he’ll explode if we disturb him when he is reading,” Aegir explained.

“Reading? boring…” Fedra said.

“Don’t mock people who learn, Fedra,” Gurolf reprimands.

“I don’t care, books are only filled with complicated and annoying letters!”

“Stop your bickering, while Ren’s still busy reading, let’s start our meeting quickly,” Aegir stopped them.

“Hm? Is there something you want to discuss related to Ren, Aegir?” Gurolf quickly picked up Aegir’s hidden motives from his words.

“Yes, exactly,”

“What’s the problem with Ren?” Ibra asked.

“There is no actual ‘problem’ with him, it’s just, I have some suspicion about him,”

“There are several points that are odd about him, the first is, at my first encounter with him, he is lying on the deep side of the forest with a body soaked with blood, I scan the surroundings, but there is no other corpses founded.”

“Isn’t it weird, a goblin duke, lying in the deep side of the forest without any underlings from his group as a bodyguard, from what I observe from him, he doesn’t look like the type who overestimates himself.”

“And he also said that he lost his memories of his life and his group, and the most strange thing is his wide knowledge of the human lifestyle and defense systems,” Aegir explained.

“As if-“

“As if he’s a human itself, huh.”

“Is it what you’ve been thinking, Aegir?” Gurolf asked and stares deeply at Aegir’s eyes.

“Yes, he’s style, and he’s a way of thinking, are way too different with how the barbaric and stupid goblins supposed to be, well we don’t actually deserve to say that though.”

“So you’re suspecting him as a human?” Brad asked with a serious expression.

“Yes, but not really, it’s just, if in the tiniest possibilities, he is actually a human, what will we do to him?”

“Will we still trust him?”

“Will we punish him?”

“Will we make him leave?”

“Or will we kill him?”

The last sentence tensed up the room.

Everyone thinks hard what will they do if what Aegir had just said is true.

“I’ll believe him,” Gurolf said with a serious face.

“If he’s going to harm the tribe, I will do my best to kill him, but he’s not that type of person, and all of us know that. If he does have bad intentions for the tribe, he won’t help our tribe defense and our labors. So even if he’s a human, he’s still Ren, one of our tribe executives.” Gurolf explained, his eyes shone, full of trust for Oz.

“Hmph! The magician’s head had stated his opinion, what could the guard’s head such as myself say?” Ibra said goofily.

“Hahahha! Exactly so!” Fedra agreed.

“My Orcs and I will always believe in our savior, no matter what race he came from!” Magra firmly said.

“Nice answer Gurolf, then we will set in stone our decisions, does everyone agreed?” Aegir asked confirmations.

“”Yes!!””

“Then we’ll continue our meeting to the next topic, with the merging of our goblin tribe and the orc clan, what should we call ourselves?”

“We barely have-“

*Sound of a door opening*

When Aegir’s in the middle of explaining the tribe’s situation, the sound of someone opening a door could be heard.

“It’s must be Ren,” Aegir confidently said.

“Go get him here Aegir, we’re going to need his brain for this topic,” Brad urged Aegir to bring Oz to the meeting.

“Okay then, I’ll go fetch him,”

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“So you’ve realized, since when?” Oz asked.

“My doubts heightened since your eyes shone when we discuss humans and their lifestyle,”

“Interesting..” Oz muttered, remembering the moment where he couldn’t help but got interested when Aegir brings up the topic.

He never thought that Aegir would catch that tiny hint from his expression.

“So, now that you actually knew that I’m a human, what will you do?” Oz asked and stares at all of the executive’s eyes.

!!??

Oz’s eyes widen.

Oz thought that what they said about if he’s a human is just a statement states by their inner justice. If they knew that he actually a human, he’s sure that they will resent him and they will hate him for deceiving them all along.

But what he saw shocks him!

What he saw is not the eyes filled with doubts, hate, or even disgust.

It’s the eyes filled with trust!

Everyone has the expression as if saying ‘we knew wether you a goblin or a human, you’re not going to harm us’.

“We trust you, Ren. Even if we have a dark past with humans before, but if it’s you, we will continue to trust you who have saved us from critical situations,”

“And if we’re going to be a kingdom, we need a king that could unite all the race inside it, and I personally believe that you fit the most, the position of the king!” Aegir said with full confidence.

“But what about the others, do the other thinks the same-“

“We do, Ren. All of us do.” Gurolf said with a barely visible smile on his face.

“W-what?”

“You should be honored, Ren. We don’t bow and give our trust to people that easily.” Fedra joined.

“Yes, we trust you because we owe you a lot of things at the same time,” Ibra continued.

“My Orcs and I will always follow our hero!” Magra enthusiastically said.

“We all believe in you, Ren. No, your majesty,” Aegir said.

“Kneel to our king!” Aegir said with a firm voice.

Right after his words, following him kneeling, all of the executives kneels to Oz.

“Hail to the king!”

“”Hail!!!””

“Hail the king of Tarot Kingdom!”